The corpus record — Latin

ob-lūdo

ob-lūdo · v. n

To play off jokes

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What it meant

ob-lūdo — Lewis & Short

ob-lūdo, si, sum, 3, v. n. *

I To play off jokes: obludunt, qui custodem oblectent, Plaut. Truc. 1, 2, 10.—*

II To make sport of, mock one; with dat.: alicui, Prud. Hamart. 6.

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.

Latin text and lemmatization derived from the Perseus Digital Library (canonical-latinLit), CC BY-SA 4.0. Lewis & Short (public domain) via Perseus. This derived data is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 license.